1996 Voragine. Legendario de Sancti, vulgare hystoriado per Nicolo de Manerbi, numerous fine woodcuts (reproduced in the 1536 edition, wanted folios 108, 109), morocco on oaken boards by Hayday, Venet., Bart. de Zani de Portese, 1503, folio (170) Leighton, £47 [See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xii., No. 5331.-ED.] 1997 White (Rev. G.) Naturalist's Calendar, extracted from papers never before published by J. Aikin, first edition (the plate at p. 66 missing), uncut, S. and J. White, 1795, 8vo. (172) Kennedy, 2s. [See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xii., No. 5367.-ED.] 1998 [Whitgift (Archbp. John).] An Answer to a certeine factious libell, under the title of An Abstract of certeine Acts of Parliament, etc., black letter, LARGE PAPER (inner margin of title repaired), calf extra, with arms of H. Norman Evans, gilt edges by Clarke and Bedford, fine copy, H. Denham for T. Chard, 1534, small 4to. (173) Bull, 135. [See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xii., No. 5370.-ED.] 1999 Witchcraft. A Whip for the Devil, or the Roman Conjuror, discovering the intolerable folly, profaneness, and superstition of the Papists in endeavouring to cast the Devil out of the bodies of Men and Women, all faithfully collected from their own Authors (wanted the frontispiece), half bound, Dorman Newman, 1683. 12mo. (175) Maggs, 18s. [See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xii., No. 5392.—ED.] [DECEMBER 17TH AND THREE SUBSEQUENT DAYS, 1898.] SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE. A SELECTION FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE MR. LAWRENCE DOYLE, OF DUBLIN; A COLLECTION OF BOOKS RELATING TO MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS; WORKS OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK; AND A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION. (No. of Lots, 1084; amount realised, £4,339 2s.) (a) A Portion of Mr. Doyle's Library. ... 2000 Æsopus. Lebun und Fabeln . . . durch Seb. Brandt, gothic letter, woodcuts, wanted title, large copy, Friburg im Brissgaw, 1555, 4to. (190) Leighton, £9 5s. 2001 Ainsworth (W. H.) Jack Sheppard, 3 vol., first edition. plates by George Cruikshank, original cloth, uncut (several leaves somewhat soiled), 1830, 8vo. (89) Littlewood, £4 45. 2002 Alken (H.) The National Sports of Great Britain, with descriptions in English and French, 50 coloured plates, original red morocco extra, gilt edges, McLean, 1821, folio (242) Hornstein, £29 2003 America. Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique, et Amérique, ou, Description des principales Villes avec leurs Fortifica tions, 14 parts (including "Les Costes de France et d'Espagne," both parts), bound in 2 vol., 420 views and plans, old calf (rebacked), m. e., Amsterdam, Mortier (1692), oblong folio (243) Littlewood, £2 2004 America. Iconologie des Empires, Royaumes et Republiques, etc.. avec le Costume et les Habillements de ceremonie suivant le goût de chaque nation; on a joint au bas de chaque Estampe une description géographique intéressante, 52 coloured plates of costumes of "Nouvelle France,' "Amerique," Virginie, Floride, Perou, Brezil, Chili, etc., old French morocco, gilt edges, Paris, Desnos, n. d., 8vo. (95) Littlewood, I IS. 2005 America. Nehiro-Irinini Aiamihe Massinahigan, Shatshegutsch, Mitinekapitsh, Iskuamiskutsh, Netshekatsh, Misht', Assinitsh, Shekutimitsh, Ekuanatsh, Ashuatmushuanitsh, Piakuagamitsh, Gaie missi missi nehiro-irinimi Astshitsh ka tatjits ka kueiasku aiamihatjits ka utshi, large copy, original sheep, Uabistguiatsh (Quebec) Massinahitsetuan, Broun gaie Girmor, 1767, 8vo. (97) Quaritch, £17 5s. [Leclerc, in his "Bibliotheca Americana," thus speaks of this work : Cet Abrége de la doctrine chrétienne en langue des Indiens Montagnais nation qui vit entre la baie de Hudson, le St. Maurice, Supérieur, etc., imprimé à Quebec par Brown et Gilmore les premiers imprimeurs de cette ville et du Canada est une de leurs premières productions typographiques. C'est un livre de la plus grande rareté et tout a fait inconnu. C'est aussi le seul spécimen qui existe, à notre connaissance, de la langue des Indiens Montagnais."-Catalogue.] 66 2006 Atkinson (J. A.) Sixteen Scenes taken from the Miseries of Human Life, by one of the wretched, 16 humorous coloured plates, with descriptive text, half calf, 1807, oblong 4to. (202) Heygate, £1 14s. 2007 Augustinus (S.) De Consensu Evangelistarum, morocco extra, gilt edges, Langingen, 1473, folio (249) Ellis, £7 2008 Austen (Jane). Original Manuscript, entirely in her autograph, of her novel "Lady Susan," consisting of 158 pages, inlaid and inserted is the first printed edition, orange morocco, the sides tooled in gold, quite perfect, 4to. (203) Elliston, £22 10S. 2009 Austen (Jane). Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, first edition, 4 vol., uncut, John Murray, 1818, 8vo. (105) Leighton, 1 IOS. 2010 Aylet (Robert, Master in Chancery). Susanna; or the Arraignment of the Two Unjust Elders, a Poem, fine copy, calf, by C. Lewis, 1622, 8vo. (108) B. F. Stevens, £17 10S. [Mr. Heber bought this copy at Dr. Farmer's sale in 1798, and it was purchased at his sale in 1834 by a former owner. Heber describes the little volume on the fly-leaf as "extremely scarce," and no other copy, except that in the Huth Library, from the Sykes and Corser collections, appears to have occurred for sale. The latter is the only one cited by Lowndes; but in Hazlitt's Handbook, 1867, XIII. 15 copies are said to be in the British Museum and Bodleian --a total of four altogether.-Catalogue.] 2011 Bacon (Francis). Novum Organum, first edition, engraved title by Pass, large copy in the original calf, 1620, folio (254) Maggs, £4 4s. 2012 Baker (Sr. Richard). Cato Variegatus, or Catoe's Morall Distichs, translated and paraphras'd, with variations of Expressing in English verse, first edition, tree calf extra, 1636, 4to. (204) Littlewood, £2 6s. 2013 Berquin (A.). Pygmalion, Scène lyrique de M. J. J. Rousseau, mise en vers par M. Berquin, engraved title and 6 vignettes after Moreau, original edition, old French calf, Paris, 1775, 8vo. (119) Littlewood, £3 4s. [This copy had at end the very rare "Idylle par Mr. Berquin," with head and tailpiece by Marillier. Mons. Gennadius' copy without the " Idylle" sold in March, 1895, for £11 15s. Bound up is "Dorat, La Declamation Théatrale," with frontispiece and 4 unlettered proof plates by Eisen.-Catalogue. Eisen also made for "Pygmalion" a series of six plates, royal 8vo., engraved by De Ghendt. These are sometimes found bound up.-ED.] 2014 Bewick (Thomas). Figures of Bewick's Quadrupeds, second edition, with a portrait of Thos. Bewick by Burnet after Ramsay, on satin, Newcastle, 1824-[Figures of] British Land and Water Birds, 2 vol., with a portrait of Bewick, by Kidd after Kirkley, on satin, ib., 1825-Vignettes, by T. Bewick, ib., 1827, a complete series of all the figures, printed on one side of the paper only, without the letterpress, only a few copies of each so printed on 4to. paper, and copies are rarely to be met with-Collection of 333 woodcuts, chiefly vignette size, and a portrait of T. Bewick, from various works illustrated by him, picked impressions, the whole neatly mounted in a vol., together 5 vol., uncut, 4to. (210) Thorne, £10 2015 Biblia Sacra veteris et novi Testamenti juxta Vulgatam editionem, old olive morocco, with an elaborate gilt floral design on sides, cut out and laid down on a ground of red silk, with the arms of Pope Gregory XIII. in centre, gilt edges, dedication copy, in morocco case, Paris, 1573, folio (257) Leighton, £13 10s. 2016 Bible. The Byble, faythfully translated in English and newly oversene and corrected (by Miles Coverdale), black letter, numerous woodcuts, wanted all preliminary leaves (except a leaf of Prologue and Table of the Epistles and Gospels), title to "Job" and N. T., and leaves after the end of Revelation, some leaves defective, but the copy generally sound and in good condition, and had title to the Second Part, the Prophets and Apocrypha (sold with all faults), old calf, Southwark, Jas. Nycolson, 1537, folio (258) Bull, £3 2017 Birds. A General History of Birds, the Breeding, Management, and Teaching of Song Birds, 2 vol., 400 woodcuts, original calf, autograph of Geo. Dyer on fly-leaf of each volume, 1745, 8vo. (124) Sotheran, £1 125. 2018 Blessebois (P. C.) Le Lion d'Angelie, histoire amoureuse et tragique, original edition, frontispiece, à Cologne, 1676— Le Temple de Marsias, original edition, ib., 1676, in 1 vol., old French morocco extra, g. e., 8vo. (127) Quaritch, £3 [Pixerecourt's copy, at whose sale it realised 105 francs 50 cents. Catalogue.] 2019 Boccace. Le Decameron, traduict par Maistre Antoine le Maçon, bound in 2 vol., woodcuts, old French morocco extra, gilt edges, Lyon, 1558, 8vo. (128) Leighton, £1 18s. 2020 Brandt (S.) Stultifera Navis, numerous large and spirited woodcuts, morocco extra, inside dentelle borders, gilt edges by Petit, Basil., J. Bergman de Olpe, 1497, 4to. (217) Leighton, £5 5s. 2021 Brandt (S.) Stultifera Navis, Narragonice profectionis nunquam satis laudata navis per Sebast. Grant (sic) nuper fabricata atqz iam pridem per Iacobum Locher, in latinum traducta eloquium, et per Sebastianū Brandt denuo, revisa, numerous curious woodcuts (Lugduni), 1498 (218) Leighton, £1 4s. 2022 Brandt (S.) Von den losen Füchsen dieser welt, gothic letter, numerous curious woodcuts, vellum, Franckfort, 1546, 4to. (219) Techner, 1 18s. 2023 Browning (E. B.) The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, in the original wrapper, E. Moxon, 1849 (135) Shepherd, £3 1s. [Contributed to a volume entitled "The Liberty Bell, by Friends of Freedom." Reprinted for the use of a few "friends of freedom."-Catalogue.] 2024 Brunet (Jacques-Charles). Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres, 6 vol., best edition, half morocco, gilt edges by F. Bedford, Paris, 1860-65, 8vo. (136) Quaritch, £6 17s. 6d. 2025 Bry (T. de). Grands Voyages: Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftage Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia, welche newlich von den Engelländern, so im Jar 1585 von Herrn R. Greinville ist erfunden worden, etc., second edition, maps and numerous engravings, first titles defective, some leaves imperfect and mended, and several soiled, old calf, with all faults, Francfort am Mayn, 1600, folio (261) Morrison, £2 25. 2026 Bunyan (John). Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publican, first edition, original calf, 1685, 8vo. (138) Leighton, £4 [This copy had the frontispiece containing a portrait of the author in his fifty-seventh year; it is missing in most extant copies.-Catalogue.] ... 2027 Burns (Robert). Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, second edition, first issue, portrait by Beugo, large copy in half calf, Edinb., 1787, 8vo. (140) Pickering, £1 16s. 2028 Butler (Samuel). Hudibras. The first part written in time of the late Wars, London, by F. G. for Richard Marriot, 1663, with imprimatur leaf before title and errata-Hudibras, the second part, by the author of the first, vignette of a bell on the title, London, T. R. for John Martyn and James Amnesty, 1664, with errata, but not the imprimatur leaf-Hudibras, the third and last part, written by the author of the first and second part, London, for Simon [First genuine author's edition, not to be confounded with the small 12mo. edition. A copy in modern calf sold July, 1891, for £21.-Catalogue.] 2029 Carroll (Lewis). The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits, with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday, first edition, original red cloth gilt, 1876, 8vo. (144) Lovent, £4 16s. [The author's own copy, with an inscription in his autograph, "C. L. D., Mar. 30, 1876." On the back of the title is a photograph of the "dear child" to whom the book is dedicated. Catalogue.] 2030 Carroll (Lewis). Doublets, a Word-Puzzle, with several corrections and additions in Carroll's autograph, second and third editions, 2 vol., original cloth, 1880, 8vo. (145) Potter, £2 25. [The author's own copies, with inscription in his autograph, "C. L. D., received Feb. 20, 1880," also numerous additions and corrections.-Catalogue.] 2031 Carroll (Lewis). Alice's Adventures Under Ground, being a facsimile of the original MS. book afterwards developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with 37 illustrations by the author, first edition, original cloth gilt, 1886, 8vo. (146) Potter, £2 2s. [The author's own copy, with inscription in his autograph, "Received Dec. 17, 1886."—Catalogue.] 2032 Carroll (Lewis). The Game of Logic, with numerous diagrams, first edition, original red cloth gilt, 1887, 8vo. (147) Potter, £2 1s. [The author's own copy, with an inscription in his autograph, "Received Feb. 22, 1887." At the end are 2 pages of errata also in his autograph.-Catalogue.] 2033 Carroll (Lewis). The Original Manuscript of the major portion of "The Game of Logic," being probably the first draft, contained in a dummy copy of his "Euclid and his Modern Rivals" (148) Potter, £3 15s. 2034 Carroll (Lewis). The Nursery "Alice," containing 20 enlargements from Tenniel's illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," the cover designed by E. Gertrude Thomson, fine copy, original picture boards, 1889, 4to. (149) Potter, £3 10s. [The author's own copy, with inscription in his autograph, "C. L. D., received Oct. 19, 1889." This is also a proof copy, as the book was never issued uncoloured; in addition it has the price printed on the title, which does not appear on the ordinary copies.--Catalogue.] 2035 Carroll (Lewis). The Nursery "Alice," another fine copy, original picture boards, 1889, 4to. (150) Upton, £2 10s. [The author's own copy, with his initials. In this the plates are also coloured. Catalogue.] 2036 Charles I. Eikon Basilike. The Portraicture of his Sacred |